AP English Literature Vocabulary (#s 66-101)

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1
A syntax is a grammatical structure of what? (More than one correct answer)
Play
Prose
Poetry
Musical
2
"Jumbo Shrimp" is an example of what figure of speech?
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
3
Fill in the Blank: A Quatrain is a ____ line stanza.
Eleven
Four
Eight
Seven
4
Synonyms: Beautiful, Pleasant, Mellifluous. What is the word?
Metaphor
Understatement
Cacophony
Euphony
5
This picture is an example of what type of characters in literature?
Antagonist
Tragic heroes
Protagonist
Comic relief
6
What is this picture an example of?
Symbol
Foot
Dactyl
Octave
7
What is the run-on of a stanza called?
Cutting
Enjambment
Jamming
Jambment
8
Fill in the Blank: Diction is the _______ choice of words.
Actors
Authors
Characters
Your
9
What are the specific instructions a playwright includes?
Directors
Stage directions
Parable
Plot
10
What is the annotation of the pattern of a rhyme called?
Rhythm
Idyll
Stanza
Rhyme scheme
11
Fill in the Blank: A Rhetorical Question does not expect a _____ answer.
Explicit
Implicit
Right
Wrong
12
Fill in the Blank: A Narrative poem is a poem that _________.
Tells a story
Re-lives the past
Is always in first person
Becomes a Musical
13
An Elegy is a poem that...?
kills every character
revives the dead
mourns the dead
celebrates the dead
14
Fill in the Blank: A sestet is a ___ line stanza.
Nine
Eight
Six
Seven
15
What are the repititions of images and ideas in a work called?
Motif
Motive
Repeating
Symbols
16
"Your eyes are like stars" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
17
Fill in the Blank: A subplot is a _____ plot.
Structured
Secondary
Primary
Scansion
18
"All hands on deck" is an example of what?
Simile
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
19
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what?
Ballad
Alliteration
Couplet
Rhyme
20
Fill in the blank: An Epigram is a brief _____ poem
Funny
Boring
Witty
Sad
21
What is this picture an example of?
Protagonist
Superman
Antagonist
Villain
22
What is the repetitive pattern of beats called in poetry?
Rhythm
Scheme
Soliloquy
Rhyme
23
Synonyms: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole. What is the word?
Literature
English
Language
Figurative Language
24
Fill in the Blank: A symbol stands for____.
Exposition
Themes
Plot
Something else
25
What is "Be with me beauty, for the fire is dying" an example of?
Comma
Colon
Period
Apostrophe
26
What is the antonym of dactyl?
Spondee
Iamb
Anapest
Caesura
27
A Monologue is a speech given by how many characters?
Two
One
Six
Five
28
A sonnet consists of how many lines?
18
14
16
32
29
The literal meaning of a word is called?
Denotation
Connotation
Free Verse
Diction
30
The person in literature who carries out the action of the plot is mostly likely known as?
Understatement
Monologue
Stage directions
Character
31
What writing criticizes the foibles and follies of society?
Solutions
Satin
Satire
Social ridicule
32
What is the underlying idea that the author illustrates?
Story line
Tone
Plot
Theme
33
Antonym: Exaggeration, Hyperactive, Excited, Overwhelming. What is the word?
Understanding
Statement
Understatement
Overstatement
34
"Die to live" is an example of what?
Paradox
Oxymoron
Satire
Parody
35
What is this picture an example of?
Catharsis
Style
Theme
Plot
36
Synonyms: peak, pinnacle, top, exciting, thrilling, turning point. What is the word?
Climax
Irony
Downfall
Complex
37
Lyric Poetry is characterized by what?
Sound
Listening
Creativity
Emotion
38
What does "the god from the machine" translate to in Greek? (Hint: resolves loose ends)
Deus Ex Machina
Machina
Machine God
Machina of Deus
39
Synonyms: Resolution, Ending, Conclusion. What is the word?
Irony
Denouement
Plot
Climax
40
Synonym: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem. What is the word?
Allusion
Anapest
Allegory
Blank Verse
41
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Stanza
Form
Spondee
42
"The stars winked at me" is an example of what figure of speech?
Personification
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
43
"Bang", "Hish", and "Splat" are examples of what?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Oxymoron
Metaphor
44
"Wasn't that a dainty dish, || to set before the king?" is an example of?
Apostrophe
Caesura
Epic
Comma
45
What is a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original?
Paradox
Parody
Comedy
Comic Relief
46
What is the method of narration referred to?
Characters
Story
Plot
Point of View
47
What is a verbal approximation of an emotion?
Image
Plot
Picture
Imagery
48
What is the authors attitude towards his subject?
Theme
Tone
Plot
Example
49
Fill in the Blank: Scansion is an analysis of a poems ____. (More than one correct answer)
Scansion
Epic
Tercet
Spondee
50
Fill in the Blank: A Parallel Plot is a ____ story.
Quaternary
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
51
What is Pathos?
Pity
Intellect
Literacy
A path
52
What literary term means characters look at the world diferently that us?
Magical Realism
Realism
Magic
Magicians
53
What is this picture an example of?
Poems
Irony
Titanic water
Poetry
54
Examples: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs God. What are they mostly examples of?
Epic
Conflict
Struggle
Battle
55
A Flashback is a...?
Thoughts
Future thought
Deja Vu
Past thought
56
What is this picture an example of?
Foot
Trochee
Sestina
Spondee
57
Ballad poems follow which rhyme scheme?
ABAB
ABCD
ABCB
ABCB
58
Synonym: Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Structure. What is the word?
Satire
Resolution
Style
Plot
59
What is a stanza?
Poem style
Poem structure
Beats of a poem
Unit of a poem
60
The word "aside" most likely means...?
Words spoken from an actor to the audience
Words said by an actor to another actor
Words said by an anonymous voice
Words said by the audience
61
Fill in the blank: A Convention is a _________ aspect of literary work
Traditional
New
Modern
Tacky
62
A poem that doesn't rhyme is most likely known as?
Blank verse
Poetry
Sonnet
Lyric
63
What is this picture an example of? (More than one correct answer)
Time
Rhyme
Rime
Rhythm
64
What is a highly structured poetic poem that contains six stanzas?
Tercet
Sestina
Sestet
Villanelle
65
What is the writing that reflects the personal image of a character?
Imagery
Impressionism
Picture
Image
66
Fill in the Blank:An Ode is ___ and celebrates a particular subject(More than one right answer)
Long
Formal
Short
Informal
67
Synonym: Freedom, Adventure, Idealism, Escape. What is the word?
Satir
Torture
Trochee
Romanticism
68
Fill in the Blank: A soliloquy is a characters _________.
Inner thoughts
Moves
Spoken lines
Off-stage character
69
An aubade is a love poem in what setting?
Night
A farm
Sunset
Dawn
70
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Irony
Iamb
Spondee
71
What is "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" an example of?
Imagery
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
72
A sestina is composed of how many lines?
26
62
39
70
73
What is the picture trying to give a literary example of?
Antagonist
Stealing the secret formula
Protagonist
Comic relief
74
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of what figure of speech?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Oxymoron
Metonymy
75
Forshadowing is what in literature?
Present
Future
Past
Time
76
A reference contained in a work is called...?
Scansion
Parody
Allusion
Epigram
77
Fill in the Blank: The Narrator is the _____ in a literary work.
Protagonist
Writer
Speaker
Antagonist
78
What type of lyric poem extols the virtues of an ideal place or time?
Ode
Elegy
Sonnet
Idyll
79
What is this picture an example of?
Tragic Hero
Flashback
Theme
Antagonist
80
What is the definition of an Epic poem?
A long poem celebrating a hero
A short poem mourning a hero
A long poem mourning a hero
a short poem celebrating a hero
81
Synonym: harsh, discordance, racket, clamor, uproar. What is the word?
Cacophony
Euphony
Lull
Villanelle
82
A Free Verse doesn't contain which of the following? (More than one correct answer)
Hyperbole
Rhyme Scheme
Irony
Meter
83
What is the organization and form of a work?
Plot
Pathos
Style
Structure
84
What is "She is a walking dictionary" an example of?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
85
The story of "The Three Little Pigs" is mostly an example of a...?
Poem
Personification
Story
Fable
86
Metaphysical poetry explores ideas through what? (Contains more than one correct answer)
Imagery
Metaphor
Parody
Paradox
87
What is the picture an example of?
Shape
Hand
Form
Picture
88
A Parable usually teaches what kind of lesson?
Moral
Expressative
Rude
Interesting
89
Fill in the Blank: A Tercet is a _____ line stanza.
Three
Two
Six
Five
90
What type of poem contains conversation between a speaker and implied listener?
Dramatic Monologue
Boring Monologue
Monologue
Enraged Monologue
91
What is the implied meaning of a work?
Texting
Text
Subtext
Plot
92
What is the definition of a plot?
Plotting points on a graph
A lineup of characters
A sequence of events
Things that have happened
93
Fill in the Blank: An exposition is ______ information in a literary work.
Primary
Important
Seconday
Background
94
What is the interpretation of a word based on it images rather than its literal meaning?
Anotation
Connotation
Denotation
Symbol
95
What is this picture an example of?
Free Verse
Tercet
Couplet
Ode
96
Synonym: Denouement. What is the word?
Beginning
Declare
Demote
Resolution
97
Fill in the Blank: An Octave is a(n) ______ line stanza.
Three
Eight
Eighteen
Six
98
What is the total effect of related sensory images?
Image
Imagery
Story
Plot
99
Fill in the Blank: A setting is a _____ in a story. (More than one correct answer)
Plot
Occupation
Time
Place
100
In Literature, a metrical unit is called?
Meter
Foot
Yard
Inch
101
Fill in the Blank: A Meter is a pattern of ______ in poetry.
Octave
Rhythm
Rhymes
Beats

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AP English Literature Vocabulary (#s 66-101)

101 termsStudBud Administration6 plays

The full version of AP English Literature vocabulary terms (#s 66-101)

Flashcards101 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 101

Answers

1
A syntax is a grammatical structure of what? (More than one correct answer)
Play
Prose
Poetry
Musical
2
"Jumbo Shrimp" is an example of what figure of speech?
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
3
Fill in the Blank: A Quatrain is a ____ line stanza.
Eleven
Four
Eight
Seven
4
Synonyms: Beautiful, Pleasant, Mellifluous. What is the word?
Metaphor
Understatement
Cacophony
Euphony
5
This picture is an example of what type of characters in literature?
Antagonist
Tragic heroes
Protagonist
Comic relief
6
What is this picture an example of?
Symbol
Foot
Dactyl
Octave
7
What is the run-on of a stanza called?
Cutting
Enjambment
Jamming
Jambment
8
Fill in the Blank: Diction is the _______ choice of words.
Actors
Authors
Characters
Your
9
What are the specific instructions a playwright includes?
Directors
Stage directions
Parable
Plot
10
What is the annotation of the pattern of a rhyme called?
Rhythm
Idyll
Stanza
Rhyme scheme
11
Fill in the Blank: A Rhetorical Question does not expect a _____ answer.
Explicit
Implicit
Right
Wrong
12
Fill in the Blank: A Narrative poem is a poem that _________.
Tells a story
Re-lives the past
Is always in first person
Becomes a Musical
13
An Elegy is a poem that...?
kills every character
revives the dead
mourns the dead
celebrates the dead
14
Fill in the Blank: A sestet is a ___ line stanza.
Nine
Eight
Six
Seven
15
What are the repititions of images and ideas in a work called?
Motif
Motive
Repeating
Symbols
16
"Your eyes are like stars" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
17
Fill in the Blank: A subplot is a _____ plot.
Structured
Secondary
Primary
Scansion
18
"All hands on deck" is an example of what?
Simile
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
19
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what?
Ballad
Alliteration
Couplet
Rhyme
20
Fill in the blank: An Epigram is a brief _____ poem
Funny
Boring
Witty
Sad
21
What is this picture an example of?
Protagonist
Superman
Antagonist
Villain
22
What is the repetitive pattern of beats called in poetry?
Rhythm
Scheme
Soliloquy
Rhyme
23
Synonyms: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole. What is the word?
Literature
English
Language
Figurative Language
24
Fill in the Blank: A symbol stands for____.
Exposition
Themes
Plot
Something else
25
What is "Be with me beauty, for the fire is dying" an example of?
Comma
Colon
Period
Apostrophe
26
What is the antonym of dactyl?
Spondee
Iamb
Anapest
Caesura
27
A Monologue is a speech given by how many characters?
Two
One
Six
Five
28
A sonnet consists of how many lines?
18
14
16
32
29
The literal meaning of a word is called?
Denotation
Connotation
Free Verse
Diction
30
The person in literature who carries out the action of the plot is mostly likely known as?
Understatement
Monologue
Stage directions
Character
31
What writing criticizes the foibles and follies of society?
Solutions
Satin
Satire
Social ridicule
32
What is the underlying idea that the author illustrates?
Story line
Tone
Plot
Theme
33
Antonym: Exaggeration, Hyperactive, Excited, Overwhelming. What is the word?
Understanding
Statement
Understatement
Overstatement
34
"Die to live" is an example of what?
Paradox
Oxymoron
Satire
Parody
35
What is this picture an example of?
Catharsis
Style
Theme
Plot
36
Synonyms: peak, pinnacle, top, exciting, thrilling, turning point. What is the word?
Climax
Irony
Downfall
Complex
37
Lyric Poetry is characterized by what?
Sound
Listening
Creativity
Emotion
38
What does "the god from the machine" translate to in Greek? (Hint: resolves loose ends)
Deus Ex Machina
Machina
Machine God
Machina of Deus
39
Synonyms: Resolution, Ending, Conclusion. What is the word?
Irony
Denouement
Plot
Climax
40
Synonym: parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem. What is the word?
Allusion
Anapest
Allegory
Blank Verse
41
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Stanza
Form
Spondee
42
"The stars winked at me" is an example of what figure of speech?
Personification
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
43
"Bang", "Hish", and "Splat" are examples of what?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Oxymoron
Metaphor
44
"Wasn't that a dainty dish, || to set before the king?" is an example of?
Apostrophe
Caesura
Epic
Comma
45
What is a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original?
Paradox
Parody
Comedy
Comic Relief
46
What is the method of narration referred to?
Characters
Story
Plot
Point of View
47
What is a verbal approximation of an emotion?
Image
Plot
Picture
Imagery
48
What is the authors attitude towards his subject?
Theme
Tone
Plot
Example
49
Fill in the Blank: Scansion is an analysis of a poems ____. (More than one correct answer)
Scansion
Epic
Tercet
Spondee
50
Fill in the Blank: A Parallel Plot is a ____ story.
Quaternary
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
51
What is Pathos?
Pity
Intellect
Literacy
A path
52
What literary term means characters look at the world diferently that us?
Magical Realism
Realism
Magic
Magicians
53
What is this picture an example of?
Poems
Irony
Titanic water
Poetry
54
Examples: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs God. What are they mostly examples of?
Epic
Conflict
Struggle
Battle
55
A Flashback is a...?
Thoughts
Future thought
Deja Vu
Past thought
56
What is this picture an example of?
Foot
Trochee
Sestina
Spondee
57
Ballad poems follow which rhyme scheme?
ABAB
ABCD
ABCB
ABCB
58
Synonym: Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Structure. What is the word?
Satire
Resolution
Style
Plot
59
What is a stanza?
Poem style
Poem structure
Beats of a poem
Unit of a poem
60
The word "aside" most likely means...?
Words spoken from an actor to the audience
Words said by an actor to another actor
Words said by an anonymous voice
Words said by the audience
61
Fill in the blank: A Convention is a _________ aspect of literary work
Traditional
New
Modern
Tacky
62
A poem that doesn't rhyme is most likely known as?
Blank verse
Poetry
Sonnet
Lyric
63
What is this picture an example of? (More than one correct answer)
Time
Rhyme
Rime
Rhythm
64
What is a highly structured poetic poem that contains six stanzas?
Tercet
Sestina
Sestet
Villanelle
65
What is the writing that reflects the personal image of a character?
Imagery
Impressionism
Picture
Image
66
Fill in the Blank:An Ode is ___ and celebrates a particular subject(More than one right answer)
Long
Formal
Short
Informal
67
Synonym: Freedom, Adventure, Idealism, Escape. What is the word?
Satir
Torture
Trochee
Romanticism
68
Fill in the Blank: A soliloquy is a characters _________.
Inner thoughts
Moves
Spoken lines
Off-stage character
69
An aubade is a love poem in what setting?
Night
A farm
Sunset
Dawn
70
What is this picture an example of?
Trochee
Irony
Iamb
Spondee
71
What is "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" an example of?
Imagery
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
72
A sestina is composed of how many lines?
26
62
39
70
73
What is the picture trying to give a literary example of?
Antagonist
Stealing the secret formula
Protagonist
Comic relief
74
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of what figure of speech?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Oxymoron
Metonymy
75
Forshadowing is what in literature?
Present
Future
Past
Time
76
A reference contained in a work is called...?
Scansion
Parody
Allusion
Epigram
77
Fill in the Blank: The Narrator is the _____ in a literary work.
Protagonist
Writer
Speaker
Antagonist
78
What type of lyric poem extols the virtues of an ideal place or time?
Ode
Elegy
Sonnet
Idyll
79
What is this picture an example of?
Tragic Hero
Flashback
Theme
Antagonist
80
What is the definition of an Epic poem?
A long poem celebrating a hero
A short poem mourning a hero
A long poem mourning a hero
a short poem celebrating a hero
81
Synonym: harsh, discordance, racket, clamor, uproar. What is the word?
Cacophony
Euphony
Lull
Villanelle
82
A Free Verse doesn't contain which of the following? (More than one correct answer)
Hyperbole
Rhyme Scheme
Irony
Meter
83
What is the organization and form of a work?
Plot
Pathos
Style
Structure
84
What is "She is a walking dictionary" an example of?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
85
The story of "The Three Little Pigs" is mostly an example of a...?
Poem
Personification
Story
Fable
86
Metaphysical poetry explores ideas through what? (Contains more than one correct answer)
Imagery
Metaphor
Parody
Paradox
87
What is the picture an example of?
Shape
Hand
Form
Picture
88
A Parable usually teaches what kind of lesson?
Moral
Expressative
Rude
Interesting
89
Fill in the Blank: A Tercet is a _____ line stanza.
Three
Two
Six
Five
90
What type of poem contains conversation between a speaker and implied listener?
Dramatic Monologue
Boring Monologue
Monologue
Enraged Monologue
91
What is the implied meaning of a work?
Texting
Text
Subtext
Plot
92
What is the definition of a plot?
Plotting points on a graph
A lineup of characters
A sequence of events
Things that have happened
93
Fill in the Blank: An exposition is ______ information in a literary work.
Primary
Important
Seconday
Background
94
What is the interpretation of a word based on it images rather than its literal meaning?
Anotation
Connotation
Denotation
Symbol
95
What is this picture an example of?
Free Verse
Tercet
Couplet
Ode
96
Synonym: Denouement. What is the word?
Beginning
Declare
Demote
Resolution
97
Fill in the Blank: An Octave is a(n) ______ line stanza.
Three
Eight
Eighteen
Six
98
What is the total effect of related sensory images?
Image
Imagery
Story
Plot
99
Fill in the Blank: A setting is a _____ in a story. (More than one correct answer)
Plot
Occupation
Time
Place
100
In Literature, a metrical unit is called?
Meter
Foot
Yard
Inch
101
Fill in the Blank: A Meter is a pattern of ______ in poetry.
Octave
Rhythm
Rhymes
Beats